Andy Petrella, the creator of Spark Notebook, will teach Agile Data Science with Scala, covering the same ideas as the SMACK Stack (Spark/Scala + Mesos + Akka + Cassandra + Kafka) from Spark Notebook. You will learn both data engineering with Spark and data analysis and visualization in Spark Notebook in this course.

Chris Richardson, the creator of the original CloudFoundry and founder of a new startup, eventuate.io, will teach you how to build Microservices with Event Sourcing. Chris put a lot of thought into the foundations of software architecture, running microservices.io, and event sourcing is a crucial piece ensuring consistency in distributed systems.

Gabor Melli, the Chief Scientist at OpenGov, a KDD award winner and KDD 2016 co-organizer, will teach his highly acclaimed introduction to Natural Language Processing. Gabor built systems incorporated deep NLP into web-scale data pipelines, and has specific pointers on what kind of NLP works in production.

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SF Scala is a group for functional programmers who use Scala to dominate the world. We build APIs, Big Data flows, and startups powered by Scala. We do more with less people and less resoucres due to Scala's incredible power. We meet to discuss best practices and how the technology is being used successfully by organizations.

SF Scala covers San Francisco, and events are coordinated with , which covers the peninsula and south bay.

If you would like to present a technical talk about Scala, or how Scala is used in your organization, please contact one of the organizers. If you want to host, contact us. We also are always looking for video sponsors to continue our recordings.